Half of SMB Employees Use Smartphones for Mobile Email

iPhone users being the most chatty is unsurprising. After switching from Android to iPhone, I respond to way more mobile emails than I used to. I’m not sure why, I think it’s the ease of entry and interface of the Mail app.

Android users being the “most popular” is interesting. Since Intermedia’s traffic was monitored, and not specific mail accounts, I’d chock Android’s ‘popularity’ up to the fact that Android phones typically require you to log in with a GMail address, where after syncing with Google’s cloud, you can then add on all your additional mail accounts, GMail or otherwise. I think this means, on average, Android users have a higher chance of multiple e-mail accounts running at once, hence, more e-mail coming to the phone.

95% of companies having at least one smartphone activated is surprising only because it’s not 100%. I’d like to think the remaining 5% of companies have a tech savvy person who is getting his mail on the go in his own way.

ActiveSync usage at 75% seems interesting, because I have to assume that the 25% remainder are users with Blackberries, since there — as of yet — is no ‘native’ ActiveSync for Blackberry.

Lastly, since Blackberry has 25% of the usage stats (which seem to correlate with the previous stat), it’s going to be a crazy race with Android against Blackberry. While 12.75%, and growing for Android is healthy, I don’t think it will be overtaking BlackBerry. Probably a tie for the short-term. People really love RIM’s keyboards too much.

Lastly, our Intermedia source says that while boardroom-types enjoy their Android devices, the SMB really wants the iPhone. No surprises here: SMB wants what’s simple and easy to use with the most compatibility.